I really like musicals. But I’m always wary of new ones. And despite Damien Chazelle’s previous film, Whiplash, being a favourite of mine and a terrific movie, I had my doubts when it was announced that La La Land, his next feature as writer-director, would be a musical. And when I watched Continue Reading
Movie Reviews
Split’s big twist: M. Night Shyamalan is back
A lot of people are calling Split a kind of return-to-form for director M. Night Shyamalan. And it very much is. When he first appeared as the “new kid on the psychological thriller block” in 1999 with The Sixth Sense, M. Night seemed to have a successful formulaic approach to his films: Slow-burning, tense thrillers, Continue Reading
Facing The Truth in Cinema: A Monster Calls
It’s the job of films to make us feel things. Even better if it’s not things we can usually or easily feel. Like the thrill of running from dinosaurs, or blowing up space stations, or falling in love, or beating the terrorists. Or in the case of A Monster Calls, the Continue Reading
TheFlow’s Top 10 movies of 2016
Instead of doing something productive last year, I made it my mission to watch as many new movies as possible – and out of those 63, here are my favourite Top 10 movies of 2016.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with a difference
Where The Force Awakens played it safe and acted as a familiar pseudo-rehash of the original Star Wars, this year’s Rogue One (the first of several planned spin-off Star Wars movies) is experimental in all the right ways. But does it have the magic that makes Star Wars special?
Wa vat hy, boys? Jonathan kry sy eie movie
Rikus de Beer, wat bekendheid verwerf het vir sy Jonathan karakter op Radio Raps en sy gevolglike YouTube kaskenades, maak sy grootskerm debuut as Jonathan. Jonathan: Die Movie is Bosbok Ses Films se eerste poging binne die komedie genre, wat ’n verligting moet wees vir ’n produksiehuis wat teen nou Continue Reading
Fantastic Beasts hits all its marks — but is it Pottermore-ish?
The question has never been whether Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is worth the ticket price. If you are a fan of the Harry Potter franchise you simply cannot allow yourself to fall behind. (I still have flashbacks from the day a friend spoiled Dumbledore’s demise.)
Eintlik Nogal Baie is Eintlik Nogal Anders as wat die plakkaat lyk
Eintlik Nogal Baie het ‘n tipiese Afrikaanse romantiese komedie-titel. En Eintlik Nogal Baie het ‘n tipiese Afrikaanse romantiese komedie-plakkaat. Maar dis nie ‘n tipiese Afrikaanse romantiese komedie nie. Eintlik nogal glad nie.
Sy Klink Soos Lente: ‘n Koekiedrukker-breker van ‘n Afrikaanse rom-kom
As daar nou een soort fliek is wat omtrent sinoniem is met ‘n koekiedrukker, is dit Afrikaanse romantiese komedies. Ek voel of ek al hoop verloor het in die genre, aangesien die glansende vonkelwyn-vertolking van die liefde keer-op-keer dieselfde is. Gelukkig het Dis Koue Kos, Skat onlangs uitgestaan as ‘n goeie Afrikaanse komedie Continue Reading
Koue kos, warm liefde, vars fliek: Dis Koue Kos, Skat
Bestanddele Liefde Teleurstelling Wraak Komedie Middeljare Kookkuns Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Elzabe Zietsman, Deon Lotz, Frank Opperman Die kors Begin met ‘n deeglike laag liefdestelleurstelling. Anna-Mart van der Merwe se Clara Brand moet aanbeweeg met haar lewe nadat sy uitgevind het haar man Bernard (Deon Lotz) verneuk haar met ‘n Continue Reading